The geometry of death / use value overtaking exchange value and them both abolishing each other / Tripwire / “even the moon hates cops” / Brendan Joyce / summer garden / Luddism / the moon a horrified witness / The White Rose / Milf Manor / Castro’s “Nothing Can Stop the Course of History / the fragment / nourishment / regimes of time / escarole / the landlord’s boyfriend / Faith Smith / Costco as the base of a communist project / in blockages think about the martyrs of Palestine / me inside a shape that was impossible to describe / carpenter-chef-jazz musician / use is a demon / what a poem is doing vs. what someone is doing with it Dominick Knowles is a poet and academic worker researching modernist and contemporary poetry of the Americas. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Mediations, Viewpoint, Post45 Contemporaries, Modernism/modernity, Bloomsbury Academic , and Amerikastudien , among others. They are currently NTT faculty in the English, American Studies, and Labor Studies departments at UMass Boston, as well as Professor of Writing and Critical Thinking and the incoming Academic Director at the Clemente Course in the Humanities (Dorchester). (And for green_space’s money they are doing some of the most important, provocative curation of poetry in this moment through Protean, a publication that breaks down the traditional firewall between literature and leftist politics.) https://dominickknowles.com/ https://proteanmag.com/ Email us: greengreenspacespace@gmail.com Thanks to Jake for the mandolin noodles.…

Printing-reading sonic overlay / angels / rolling ink / the mobility of the poem / the book as a vessel for a relationship / collectively making time / collating together / gardening / home repair / dreams / demons / sitting with it / if we could swap dreams / silence We ask Amie Zimmerman 10 questions, 7 from our Season 1 guests. Amie: Amie Zimmerman is from Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in West Branch , Bennington Review , Prelude , Denver Quarterly , and Paperbag , among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including Compliance (Essay Press) and, with artist Samantha Wall, the collaboration 31 Days/The Self (Ursus Americanus). Currently, Amie lives in upstate NY, where she works as a hairstylist, union organizer, and PhD student. Along with Matthew Klane and Hajar Hussaini, she co-curates the reading series Salon Salvage.…

Wail Song / André 3000’s NewBlue Sun / expectations of black masculine performance / the desire for legibility / other suns / Sun Ra’s Blue Universe / sordid relationship with poetry / poetry that seeks the end of poetry, the end of genre and disciplinarity / what is left of poetry after its stripped of material norms / poetry’s exceptional theoretical burden / resisting the norms of value / historical traumas disrupting a linear senses of time / work in oppositionality to use / the terms of value / Afropessimism / noise as less cohered / din is discourse / Édouard Glissant / chasing that inarticulable thing / a space where speaking in tongues is normative / dreams as an archival space / dreams disrupting narrative / a wallet Chaun Webster is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and temporal limitations of writing, of the english language, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. Webster’s debut book, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime , was published by Noemi Press in 2018, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Webster's latest book is Wail Song, published by Black Ocean Press in 2023. https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/wail-song…

Troubled relationship with machines / the tool is not life / poetry’s evolution into a visual or performative medium, away from the codex / Lisa Robertson / mapping subjectivity as its displaced across technologies, architecture, and clothes / clothes as costume / tragic relationship to lost objects / trash picking / indexing life through clothes / tedious dreams / daily life as more dreamlike than dreams themselves / the reflex to make noise into music / art should be just a little bit useful / the full utility of art as a nightmare / some but not total obligation to social reality / ambiguity can’t be let go of / insomnia on full moon nights / don’t mine the moon / Roberto Bolaño / fey social scene / blowing up a very serious poetry reading with ‘this fucking stupid old lady [the queen] has died’ / Wallace Stevens as extremely depoliticizing / The Savage Detectives is Real / Burning Sequence Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. Check out Jaramillo’s work: https://laurajaramillo-poetfilm.squarespace.com/ Hear Laura Jaramillo read with Marty Cain and Sara Sgro: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NR2EgyA66T1U0ggla2jgt?si=a4756df7b5834512…

Machines, bureaucracy, health care, and the systems that kill us / TENS units / illness / Taoism, Buddhism, and the future / 5 year plans as antithetical to the human experience getting in the way of getting a job / the internet as primary third space / Tik Tok as creative platform / art as a way of being, process / everything we do is a form of art / dreams as involuntary vulnerability / Jung / dreamscapes / disability and sensuality, eroticism and illness / leaning into innuendo / hate noise / discerning what your desire is / the body articulating a desire which cannot be met / Sarah Manguso / Amy Hempel / there she is [the moon] / vibing straight through / birth readings / being blanketed by the night https://www.oliviamuenz.com/ Olivia Muenz is a disabled writer from New York. She is the author of poetry collection I Feel Fine (Switchback Books, 2023), which won the 2022 Gatewood Prize, and chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press, 2022). She received a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University where she won the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Conduit, Black Warrior Review, Pleaides, Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly , and elsewhere, including being listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023. Her writing has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Zoeglossia. She lives in the Hudson Valley.…

The Spring 2023 green_space (relocated from Chapin Parkway to a home on the West Side due to lightning). Our readers: Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. https://laurajaramillo-poetfilm.squarespace.com/ Sarah Sgro is a PhD candidate in English at the University at Buffalo where she studies digital waste and co-leads the Palah Light Lab, a creative and critical community for queer and feminist new media. She is the author of If The Future Is a Fetish (YesYes Books, 2019) and received her MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi. http://sarah-sgro.com/ Marty Cain is a poet originally from Vermont. He is the author of three books of poetry and hybrid writing—most recently, The Prelude (Action Books, 2023). His individual works appear in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Fence, Poetry Daily, Denver Quarterly, Sink Review, mercury firs, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and a PhD from Cornell University, where he wrote a dissertation on rural poetic community. He is currently a postdoc within the Humanities Scholars Program at Cornell. He lives in Ithaca, New York, where he co-edits Garden-Door Press and performs with BOGMOM, a poetry + sound collective. https://www.marty-cain.com/…

how to cut every vegetable / cursed instagram page / art that provokes pain / tactile discomfort / creation as ritual sacrifice / hyper-presentness / interesting trash / repurposing ambient data collection / turning a technical-rational operation into an occulted enigma Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11:11 Press), Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press), Desert Tiles (Equus Press), and Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle). His work often explores the haptic, architectural, and organismal qualities of the text-object. As an artist and designer, his work has been featured in the catalogs of 11:11 Press, Fonograf Editions, Apocalypse Party, Inside the Castle, and other presses. As an editor, he operates CLOAK.wtf. | http://www.mikecorrao.com/ | Book Recs: INTRASPACE by Christina Jauernik and Wolfgang Tschapeller / Deleuzine Vol 1. Specifically the essay, SPILLS by Geiste Kincinaityte and Elain Tam / IMPERFECT ARCHIVING, ARCHIVING AS PRACTICE: FOR A LOVE OF SOFTNESS by Be Oakley at Genderfail Press / Vermis I by Plastiboo Music Recs: God’s Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess by Fievel is Glauque / I’m in your walls by death insurance / LP! By JPEGMAFIA / Aethiopes by billy woods / Haram by Armand Hammer / Absolutely by Dijon / Fireside Chat with Lucifer by Sun Ra / Space 1.8 by Nala Sinephro / Dollar Menu by Mach-Hommy…

The Fall 2022 green_space in Chapin Parkway, Buffalo. ava hoffman performed work from [ . . . ] . Ava Hofmann's digital chapbook, THE WOMAN FACTORY , was published by the Operating System in 2020. Her second full-length book, love poems / smallness studies , is forthcoming in 2022. She also “edits” SPORAZINE, a magazine of experimental writing written by trans people. Her Twitter is @st_somatic and her website is www.nothnx.com . Isaac Pickell performed new works and pieces from everything saved will be last. Raised in Michigan near the back of his parents’ used bookstore, Isaac Pickell is a biracial poet & PhD candidate at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches and studies the borderlands of blackness and black literature. a graduate of Miami University's MFA program, his work’s been featured in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter, you can find his newest stuff online at Perhappened, Protean Magazine, or Sixth Finch, his chapbook everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and his forthcoming full-length debut from Black Ocean in 2023. Isaac has taken a seat in all fifty states and has so much to look forward to. His dissertation, “Passing Over, Passing Through: Transgressive Ambiguity Beyond the Colorline,” reimagines the literary and cultural history of “passing” through its growth as a contextually bound cultural phenomenon applied not only to race, but other socially constructed and rigid categories which preoccupy the American landscape, including gender, sexuality, and citizenship. by developing “passing” as a critical lens for considering various representations of ambiguous identity, Isaac hopes to promote analysis of other “category crises” grounded in and sensitive to the ongoing story of racial passing. https://www.isaacpickell.com/…

sea lion whiskers, poetry as a feeling organ / agitated into questioning / mimesis / if time travel isn't true I don't want to be true / didn't do it for the 22,480/yr / 'pronouns of knowing' / C. Riley Snorton / I am the thinker that excites me most / theoretically-adjacent poetry / Rob Halpern / Kevin Latimer / thinking by seeking / Taylor Byas / terror of limitlessness and time / the precarity of the resource of life as source of meaning / hand-drawn infographics / we need to waste our energy and time, contend with the byproducts of our productivity / waste is something that happens, not something that is / before the production of wreckage / there is a cat, you're just a cat / it feels like a sunset all of the time / I want leisure to be everything / the Fermi Paradox / Froyo and other meritocracies / commuter who hugs tight to their well-soiled lane / machines are a miracle for anyone who gets to control them / poetry is going to have to sacrifice the page / poetry as 3-dimensional object / poet as prospective propagandist / the world is so fucked at this moment but in a way which is boring / Alice Phoebe Lou / Loving / Noname Raised in Michigan near the back of his parents’ used bookstore, Isaac Pickell is a biracial poet & PhD candidate at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches and studies the borderlands of blackness and black literature. a graduate of Miami University's MFA program, his work’s been featured in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter, you can find his newest stuff online at Perhappened, Protean Magazine, or Sixth Finch, his chapbook everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and his forthcoming full-length debut from Black Ocean in 2023. Isaac has taken a seat in all fifty states and has so much to look forward to. His dissertation, “Passing Over, Passing Through: Transgressive Ambiguity Beyond the Colorline,” reimagines the literary and cultural history of “passing” through its growth as a contextually bound cultural phenomenon applied not only to race, but other socially constructed and rigid categories which preoccupy the American landscape, including gender, sexuality, and citizenship. by developing “passing” as a critical lens for considering various representations of ambiguous identity, Isaac hopes to promote analysis of other “category crises” grounded in and sensitive to the ongoing story of racial passing. https://www.isaacpickell.com/…

The Summer 2022 green_space in Chapin Parkway, Buffalo. Megan Kyle brought us the sound installation Soggy Music for any number of participants of any skill level, body of water, hydrophone, and fixed media playback routed through Max patch by Megan Kyle, electronics by Ethan Hayden Buffalo-based oboist Megan Kyle performs as a soloist, improviser, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. She makes nonsense and sense of unfamiliar sonic experiences as a listener, performer, and teacher. Megan is a member of the new music ensemble Wooden Cities, musical research group Null Point, voice/oboe duo Senso di Voce, and oboe/piano/violin/cello quartet The Evolution of the Arm. She teaches oboe at Houghton University, SUNY Geneseo, and SUNY at Buffalo. Her most recent recording is an EP with The Evolution of the Arm called Telepathic Music Vol. 1, released this summer on Infrasonic Press. Joel Craig came from Chicago to read poems as the sun set and wind blew. Here's Joel Craig: Joel Craig is the author of Humanoid (2021) and The White House (2012) , both from the Green Lantern Press. He co-founded and hosted the Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago from 2001-2015 and serves as an artistic associate for the Lit & Luz festival ( litluz.org ), an event series series of events featuring authors, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico in cultural exchange and conversation. Joel is also poetry editor for MAKE literary magazine. His poetry can be found in A Public Space, Boston Review, FENCE, and more recently in Fonograf Editions Magazine, and at Windfall Room. green_space is a seasonal event series that takes place outdoors rain or shine or snow in Buffalo’s public space run by Jake Reber and Joe Hall. It is interested in readings in places that are unfussy and everyday. It is interested in what a reading can be without walls.…

A cosmic library / The unsayable / Rickie Lee Jones / akashic records / Devo / L’avenir / UMass / Derrida / David Berman / Space for feeling-states / poetry / Pavement / Hedonism / What is to come, someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected…that is the real future, the other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival / Grounding a reading / The machine and the divine / To rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence their heart first opened / the unimaginability of the future / If it bores God, you’re f*cked Timothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) was born in 1965 in San Jose, California to immigrant parents from Mainland China. He is the author of twelve books of poems, including Of Thee I Sing , selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Say Goodnight , a 1998 PEN Open Book Margins Award; and Vox Angelica , which won the 1992 Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry . His next book, Down Low and Low Down: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues, will be published in 2023. Translated into ten languages, Liu’s poems have appeared in such places as Best American Poetry, Bomb, Kenyon Review, The Nation, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Yale Review . His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He is currently a Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. Liu is an intuitive reader of occult esoterica, including the Tarot and the I-Ching and the Akashic Records, and is available for private consultations. https://www.timothyliu.net/…

Danika Stegeman LeMay & Vincent James Perrone--lakewise traveling--read at green_space in Buffalo on 5/8/22. Thanks to them for making the trip and thanks to everyone who came and helped them feel welcome. About Stegeman LeMay & Perrone: Danika Stegeman LeMay’s work has appeared in 32 Poems, Afternoon Visitor, Concision, Forklift, OH, Harpy Hybrid Review, Leavings , and Word for/ Word , among other places, and is forthcoming in Blue Arrangements and APARTMENT . Her video poem, “Then Betelgeuse Reappears” was an official selection for the 2021 Midwest Video Poetry Festival. She received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Danika’s debut collection of poems, Pilot (2020), is available from Spork Press. Her website is danikastegemanlemay.com . Vincent James Perrone is the author of the poetry collection, Starving Romantic (11:11 Press, 2018), the microchap, Travelogue For The Dispossessed (Ghost City Press, 2021), and a contributor to the novel, Collected Voices in the Expanded Field (11:11 Press, 2020). His recent work can be found in Storm Cellar , T he Indianapolis Review , Heavy Feather Review , and Olney Magazine . He is the poetry editor of The Woodward Review and lives in Detroit.…

Interview w/novelist Linsday Lerman--What Are You, Bataille, non-knowledge, fallow periods in the creative process, so much meaning in daily text threads, the possibility in communication, engagement with theory as a drug, touching a plant, the useless version of epistemic play, Brahms, waste is the way the universe functions, going cold-turkey on theory Lerman's new novel What Are You here: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/lindsay-lerman-what-are-you-preorder Find Lindsay Lerman at https://lindsaylerman.com/…

Jay Besemer’s outlook on being with the world, changing through language, and negotiating the event while foregrounding the needs of the body feel absolutely essential. green_space is delighted to present our interview with Jay. And a surprise reading of the poem (“The Wound”) that saved Joe from the pandemic. co-creating the future / Cocteau Twins / an openness to being changed / Dr. Who / the love of machines / Katherine McKittrick / mycelial nets of citation / accessibility and negotiating parameters / writing as offloading cognition / foregrounding the needs of the project, foregrounding the needs of the body Find Jay Besemer at www.jaybesemer.net/ & on Twitter @divinetailor Interview transcript. Visit our simple palace: http://greenspacegreen.space/…

Dana Venerable reads at green_space in the evening of 1/28/22 in the snowy parkway, temperatures in the single digits, vapor from our breath lettering the air / a collaborative work in dialogue with description, notation, dance, the interview, a shared movement through language, the connection of sound, what body of water matters to you and why, do you dance alone, do you think your body of water moves like you do? / un-dam every river / "You put your hand warmers in your boots?" / thank you to Dana, for this work, movement, language, being, and conversation.…